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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 154089"><p>One of the things that kinda/sorta frustrates me...but I <em>think</em> I relatively quickly learned to cope with it, was the high cost of going out with my husband because we had a difficult child in the household. However, I valued "date night" with husband so much, I just learned to live with it. There were times, that I kept our date night a little on the short side, but we still went out relatively frequently. There were times that we went to inexpensive places to compensate for the "sitting" costs. For many many years, to longest vacation we took was two nights/three days...so that we could afford to pay someone to stay with the kids. We got very creative having a few super responsible sitters available...trying hard never to burn anyone out and often paid a little extra, giving them lots of advice and warm fuzzies. It was hard, taxing and expensive...but in the end, I believe it was WELL worth it. Like Oprah says (although husband is VERY DOWN on the Oprah at the moment) this I KNOW FOR SURE...pay a responsible sitter, get out of the house and enjoy life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 154089"] One of the things that kinda/sorta frustrates me...but I [I]think[/I] I relatively quickly learned to cope with it, was the high cost of going out with my husband because we had a difficult child in the household. However, I valued "date night" with husband so much, I just learned to live with it. There were times, that I kept our date night a little on the short side, but we still went out relatively frequently. There were times that we went to inexpensive places to compensate for the "sitting" costs. For many many years, to longest vacation we took was two nights/three days...so that we could afford to pay someone to stay with the kids. We got very creative having a few super responsible sitters available...trying hard never to burn anyone out and often paid a little extra, giving them lots of advice and warm fuzzies. It was hard, taxing and expensive...but in the end, I believe it was WELL worth it. Like Oprah says (although husband is VERY DOWN on the Oprah at the moment) this I KNOW FOR SURE...pay a responsible sitter, get out of the house and enjoy life. [/QUOTE]
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